A Handful of Sugar with a Pinch of Salt
The medical advance of the century.... more important than the discovery of penicillin and the eradication of smallpox. Bold, but justifiable, claims for what turns out to be just a drink of sugar and salt.
The world's biggest killer of children is diarrhoea. Now, instead of going to hospital, mothers can treat it themselves and so save their child's life at home, at virtually no cost.
From a beach in Bangladesh, to a Nicaraguan war-zone, a Honduran hospital and a classroom in Alexandria, a story unfolds of how a cheap therapy, discovered by accident, may not only save the lives of half a million children a year, but also, surprisingly, halt the rise of the world's birth rates. Narrator Paul Vaughan
Film editor CHRISTOPHER WOOLLEY Written and produced by SIMON CAMPBELL JONES
Horizon editor ROBIN BRIGHTWELL